"A critic's notebook article on Monday about the prevalence of standing ovations at Broadway shows described incorrectly the quickness with which audience members appeared to be on their feet at a performance of the current revival of Death of a Salesman. Their ovation seemed to occur within a millisecond — one-thousandth of a second — not a megasecond, which is one million seconds."

Now, this blogger can imagine himself making that same mistake. Sure, "milli" certainly isn't the same as "mega." But you get mixed up sometimes. So there willl be no fun poked at the Times here. As they say, "there but for the grace of God go I."

And, after all, that mistake prompted a bit of research that actually taught us something: a megasecond lasts 11.57 days.